Kittitas Stewardship Fund

10/14/2025

Applications for 2025-2026 KSF grants are open until October 17!

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Curious about the kinds of projects we fund? We've got a handy summary for you right here:

10/11/2024

Last chance to apply for $5k grants! Applications close FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18!

Apply for KSF funds!

The 2024-2025 Kittitas Stewardship Fund grant cycle is OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS! Local projects supporting recreation, restoration, outdoor education, or management planning are eligible!

Applications are due by October 18! Learn more and apply at our website: https://www.kittitasstewardshipfund.org/grant-opportunities

09/17/2024

Apply for KSF funds!

The 2024-2025 Kittitas Stewardship Fund grant cycle is OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS! Local projects supporting recreation, restoration, outdoor education, or management planning are eligible!

Applications are due by October 18! Learn more and apply at our website: https://www.kittitasstewardshipfund.org/grant-opportunities

08/12/2024

Where does the money for KSF's grant program come from? We call it the 1% For Public Lands program - local businesses that rely on outdoor tourism offer their customers a quick and easy way to give back to the lands, and that money fuels the grants! Visit our website to learn more, and follow this page for spotlights on our participating partner businesses:

1% for Public Lands is a program of the Kittitas Stewardship Fund that raises money for projects that keep Kittitas County’s public lands healthy, accessible, and safe for all to enjoy.

08/05/2024

GRANTEE SPOTLIGHT!

The Kittitas Stewardship Fund provides mini-grants to local partners, enabling them to work on the ground in our communities for the benefit of our shared environment! Check out one of our 2023-24 grant recipients, Outdoor School:

"Washington Outdoor School's (WOS) mission is to cultivate learning and growth in joyful partnership with nature and our community. Our Mobile Explorer Partner Program sends skilled teachers from WOS into Pre K-12 classrooms in school districts in Kittitas County. We partner with classroom teachers to take learning outside for immersive experiences in the natural world to extend, enhance and augment classroom learning during the school day. With the KSF grant this year we partnered with Ida Nason Aronica Elementery in the Ellensburg School District and with a 3rd grade and an 7th grade teacher in the Cle Elum Roslyn School District. Students learned about native plants. As one of our partner teachers commented, "[we got to be] out in nature during our school day [able] to immerse ourselves in our 'place.'" Students listened to traditional Indigenous stories, learned how to be responsible stewards of our shared environments and wrote nature inspired poetry among many other inspiring things."

07/29/2024

Thanks for seeking more information about the Kittitas Stewardship Fund - a local, volunteer-coordinated effort to help address some of the funding gaps around outdoor recreation in Kittitas County. We collect donations from participating business partners and distribute grants to support natural resources, recreation infrastructure, outdoor education programs, and conservation efforts. In 2023, we provided $21,800 to further the work of five local organizations.

Follow this page for more information about these projects as we move through our first year!

The 1% for Public Lands program collected $20,000* to distribute as grants for 2023-2024! The following projects received funding: